This excerpt from the article is very important for people to understand:

"In a complex economy, “it’s certainly plausible that immigration enforcement — and the subsequent drop in the number of illegals — enabled unemployed Americans to find work,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a D.C. -based advocacy group.

“Americans with the highest unemployment rates — young workers, less-educated workers, minority workers — are the ones facing the greatest job competition from illegal aliens, and thus would benefit the most from the departure of those illegal aliens,” he added."

So let's dispense with the "racist" bullshit when talking about enforcing immigration laws.

Keivan Deravi, an economist at Auburn University Montgomery, said, "[T]he state's declining rate has resulted from both more jobs and from unemployed people stopping their job searches, which means they drop out of the unemployment statistics. The December statistics showed more quitting their job searches than finding work." (emphasis added)